Trump approval in Israel: 38% approve
A Kantor poll found Trump's approval rating in Israel dropped 20 points since May 25th to just 38% approve, 54% disapprove.
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Netanyahu's Shrinking Island: How He Ran Out of Friends
At 36:16 · chapter starts 34:40
This chapter is a forensic accounting of Netanyahu's strategic miscalculations. Starting around 2009 and accelerating in 2015, he aligned exclusively with Republicans, attacked a popular Democratic president, invited himself to Congress without telling the administration, and leveraged AIPAC to undercut the JCPOA. The result: Democrats now despise him, and he pushed all his chips to Trump — who is now publicly embarrassing him [1] — Tommy Vietor "Netanyahu went all-in with Republicans, attacked Obama, torpedoed the JCPOA, and now Democrats despise him. With the Iran war a catastrophe…" 34:40 . Ben draws the broader arc: every voter who re-elected Netanyahu shares responsibility for the current crisis, and the only path to a healthier US-Israel relationship runs through the Israeli ballot box. Both hosts agree Netanyahu likely won't leave southern Lebanon and will try to play out a frozen conflict in Lebanon while nuclear talks grind on, but the risk of overplaying his hand grows daily.
Netanyahu's Shrinking Island
Netanyahu went all-in with Republicans, attacked Obama, torpedoed the JCPOA, and now Democrats despise him. With the Iran war a catastrophe, Trump's approval in Israel has collapsed to 38%. Netanyahu has nowhere else to turn — and the Democratic Party is gone.
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